branch: change the error messages to be more meaningful

The error messages shown when the branch command is misused by supplying it wrong number of parameters wasn't meaningful. That's because it used the the phrase "too many branches" assuming all parameters to be "valid" branch names. It's not always the case as exemplified below, $ git branch foo * master $ git branch -m foo foo old fatal: too many branches for a rename operation Change the messages to be more general thus making no assumptions about the "parameters". Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Kaartic Sivaraam committed Aug 21, 2017 at 19:06 UTC f77762351445a73bbafc1464b4676d046e726468
1 file changed +3 -3
builtin/branch.c
+3 -3
@@ -711,12 +711,12 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
711 else if (argc == 2)
712 rename_branch(argv[0], argv[1], rename > 1);
713 else
714 - die(_("too many branches for a rename operation"));
714 + die(_("too many arguments for a rename operation"));
715 } else if (new_upstream) {
716 struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
717
718 if (argc > 1)
719 - die(_("too many branches to set new upstream"));
719 + die(_("too many arguments to set new upstream"));
720
721 if (!branch) {
722 if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
739 struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
740
741 if (argc > 1)
742 - die(_("too many branches to unset upstream"));
742 + die(_("too many arguments to unset upstream"));
743
744 if (!branch) {
745 if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))